George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
earth world wells
Do well and right and let the world sink.
solitude multitudes thyself
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.
brightness refuse
Money refused loose its brightness.
garden body
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
book gains needs
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
inferiority spirit poor
It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
church-bells church bells
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
made trade
Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.
mean solitude soul
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear.
funny-friend heaven hell
It is good to have friends both in Heaven and Hell.
plato simple missing
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.
doubt knows
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
prayer ocean sea
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
flower identity garlands
One flower makes no garland.